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Puzzle Page Answers for August – Page 1

Q&A

#1 What does the Y stand for in VIBGYOR?
#2 Who is the patron saint of Ireland?
#3 What is sabrage? (Hint: it’s something to do with an alcoholic drink.)
#4 In what years did World War I begin and end?
#5 Which town is home to carton family The Simpsons?
#6 What’s the name for golf clubs that are designed to hit the ball a long way, either from tees or fairways?
#7 Which three countries border Luxembourg?
#8 What is deoxyribonucleic acid better known as?
#9 Featuring in the recent fourth series of Stranger Things is the 1985 song “Running Up That Hill” by which British singer/songwriter?
#10 Which tech company, starting with “S”, is South Korea’s largest?

Answers:

#1 Yellow
#2 Saint Patrick
#3 A technique for opening a champagne bottle with a saber, used for ceremonial occasions
#4 1914 and 1918
#5 Springfield
#6 Woods
#7 Belgium, France and Switzerland
#8 DNA
#9 Kate Bush
#10 Samsung

SUDOKU

3 1 7  8 4 2  6 9 5
8 9 5  6 3 7  1 4 2
6 2 4  1 5 9  3 7 8

9 6 8  2 7 5  4 1 3
5 4 1  9 6 3  2 8 7
7 3 2  4 8 1  9 5 6

1 5 6  3 9 8  7 2 4
2 8 3  7 1 4  5 6 9
4 7 9  5 2 6  8 3 1

WORDWHEEL

9-letter word: readymade

Others:
aery, army, demy, dray, dyad, dyed, dyer, eddy,
eery, eyed, eyer, eyra, yard, yare, year, deary, dryad,
emery, rayed, ready, redye, reedy, drayed, dreamy,
redyed, remedy, yarded, daymare, dramady, dramedy,
daydream

KENKEN

5 3 1 2 4
4 5 2 3 1
3 2 4 1 5
1 4 3 5 2
2 1 5 4 3

Answers to Puzzle Page 2

FIND A WORD

Here are the 15 Cockney slang terms and their meanings:

Butcher’s Hook – look
China Plate – mate
Barney Rubble – trouble
Brahms and Liszt – pissed
Pete Tong – wrong
Bag of Fruit – suit
Frog and Toad – road
Baked Bean – queen
Pig’s Ear – beer
Pat Malone – alone
Pork Pies – lies
Donkey’s Ears – years
Barnet Fair – hair
Ruby Murray – curry
Dog and Bone – phone

LETTER JUGGLE

Move a letter from the left-hand word to the right-hand word to create two new words (so, “mince” and “path” become “mine” and “patch”)

Answers

Pan – Debit
Hose – Pound
Fake – Gloat
Father – Create
Pain – Trampled
Have – Bloat
Gaze – Floods
Mined – Wadding
Bacon – Event
Boom – Lilt

RULERS AND EMPIRES

Match the famous ruler with their empire

Answers

Catherine the Great – Russian
Nero – Roman
Empress Dowager Cixi – Qing
Haile Selassie I – Ethiopian
Charlemagne – Holy Roman
Alexander the Great – Macedonian
Victoria – British
Hatshepsut – Egyptian
Genghis Khan – Mongol
Moctezuma I – Aztec

TWO-WORD SONGS

Pair a word on the left with one on the right to form the name of a popular song

Answers:

Blinding Lights
Bad Romance
Rocket Man
Brown Sugar
Penny Lane
My Sharona
Dancing Queen
Dance Monkey
Wild Thing
Paradise City

THE RIDDLER

 Try to decipher these three rebuses – each one is a common phrase

#1

HANY
HAEY
HAEY
HADY
HALY
HAEY

#2

T M C
A U O
H S M
W T E

#3

TTTTIIIIMMMMEEEE
AB DE

 Answers:

#1 Needle in a haystack
#2 What goes up must come down
#3 Long time, no see

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Shamus Sillar

While he has worked as a magazine editor since 2003, Shamus also has a PhD in Roman History (useful!) and is a published author. He writes mostly on travel but also covers food, history, sport, trivia and more, across Expat Living’s publications and websites in Singapore and Hong Kong.